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James Steuart An Inquiry Into The Principles Of Political Economy, Volume 1

by: James Steuart

Publication date: 1767

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: economy, political, James Steuart

Publisher: London: A. Millar and T. Cadell

Collection: opensource

Language: English

Volume: 1 of 2

Una investigación sobre los principios de la economía política. Siendo un ensayo sobre la ciencia de la política interna en las naciones libres. En que se consideran particularmente la población, la agricultura, el comercio, la industria, el dinero, la moneda, el interés, la circulación, las maldiciones, el cambio, los créditos públicos y los impuestos

Índice

De la distribución de habitantes en claffes del empleo 59
De la gran ventaja de combinar una teoría bien digerida 67
Continuación de la misma materia en cuanto a la necesidad 75
Del abuso de la agricultura y la población 82
Application of the above principles to the ſtate of population 95
Why are ſome countries found very populous in reſpect 101
In what manner and according to what proportion do plenty 109
Is the introduction of machines into manufactures prejudicial 119
Miſcellaneous obſervations upon agriculture and population 124
Recapitulation of the firſt book 149
BOOK II 162
Of Demand 172
How the prices of goods come to be determined by trade 181
How foreign trade opens to an induſtrious people and the conſe 184
Conſequences of the introduction of a paflive foreign trade 190
Of double competition 196
Of what is called expence profit and loſs 205
Of the balance of work and demand 216
Why in time this balance is deſtroyed 225
Of the competition between nations 232
Security eaſe and happineſs no inſeparable concomitants 250
A general view of the principles to be attended to by a ſtateſman 261
Illuſtration of ſome principles laid down in the former chapter 272
Symptoms of decay in foreign trade 278
Of infant foreign and domeſtic trade with reſpect to 301
Of phyſical and political neceſſaries 311
Preliminary reflections upon inland commerce 319
When a nation which has enriched herſelf by a reciprocal 323
What is the proper method to put a ſtop to a foreign trade 336
When a rich nation finds her foreign trade reduced to 343
Of the vibration of the balance of wealth between the ſubjects 359
Circulation and the balance of wealth objects worthy of 374
Circulation conſidered with regard to the riſe and fall of 394
Circulation with foreign nations the ſame thing as the balance 414
Miſcellaneous queſtions and obſervations relative to trade 426
Recapitulation of the fecond book 482
DE DINERO Y MONEDA 490
Los principios del dinero deducidos y aplicados a la moneda 521